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<p class="Body"><span class="EmptyRef">TExpander</span> implements a neighborhood operation similar to morphological <a href="../TDilater/_Body.htm">dilation</a>. However, unlike ordinary dilation, where the structuring element is added to the color samples, the expand operation will multiply the weights. We define this operator as</p>
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<p align="left" class="Body">where <em>f </em>is a <em>sampler</em> and <em> b</em> is a <em>structuring element. </em>The structuring element is defined by the <a href="../TKernelSampler/Properties/Kernel.htm">Kernel</a> property of the class. See topic about <a href="../../../../Additional%20Topics/Sampling%20and%20Rasterization.htm">Sampling and Rasterization</a> for more info. </p>
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